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Digitized from Box 26 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 12, 1976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate Arthur W. Hummel, Jr.,
of Chevy Chase, Maryland, a Foreign Service Officer of the Class of
Career Minister, to be an Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs. He will succeed Philip C. Habib who is being nominated
to be Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Mr. Hummel has
been Ambassador to Ethiopia since 1975.
Born June 1, 1920, in China of American parents, Ambassador Hummel attended
Antioch College from 1937 to 1939 and the College of Chinese Studies in
Peking from 1940 to 1941. He received a master of arts degree in Chinese
(Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Chicago which he attended from
1947 to 1949.
Between 1938 and 1941, Ambassador Hummel worked successively as a
hospital orderly, a salesman, and a laboratory assistant. He was teaching
English in Peking, China, from 1940 to December 8, 1941, when he was
interned by the Japanese. He escaped from the internment camp in 1944
and joined a unit of Chinese guerrillas, which he remained with, in Eastern
China, until V-J Day, 1945. In 1945 and 1946, he worked as a Liaison
Officer at Tientsin, China, for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration. Also in 1946, he was a staff lecturer in New York City
for United Service to China until 1947, when he entered the University of
Chicago Graduate School.
Ambassador Hummel began his career with the Department of State in 1950
as a Foreign Affairs Officer, In 1952, he went to Hong Kong as Public
Affairs Officer, and in 1955 he was transferred to Tokyo as the Deputy
Public Affairs Officer. From 1957 to 1960, Ambassador Hummel served at
Rangoon as Country Public Affairs Officer. He returned to Washington in
1960 and after attending the National War College was assigned as Deputy
Director of the Voice of America. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary
in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs from 1963 to 1965, when
he wnnt to Taipei as Deputy Chief of Mission. From 1968 to 1971, he served
as Ambassador to Burma. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of East Asian and Pacific Affairs beginning in 1971.
Ambassador Hummel is married to the former Betty Firstenberger.
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